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Month: July 2021
A FEAST OF AFRICA Newsletter # 05/21 May 2021
A unique way to see Cape Town is the amazing Street Art. Now part of the International Public Art Festival hosted in and around Salt River artists from South Africa and around the world adorn over 123 buildings. (Note the size of the people admiring the wall) CHISAKI ART – Tanzania Tanzanian artist Charles Samson […]
A FEAST OF AFRICA Newsletter # 04/21 April 2021
My Octopus Teacher is a 2020 Netflix film documenting a year spent by filmmaker Craig Foster and his relationship with a wild octopus in a South African kelp forest. This Oscar winning film shows Foster’s growing intimate relationship with the octopus as he follows her around for nearly a year. This, he says taught him […]
A FEAST OF AFRICA newsletter # 03/21 March 2021
“The Heart of a fool is in his mouth, and the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.” Ethiopian proverb This month we start with a wonderful colourful expedition of the FLIPFLOPI DHOW sailing around Lake Victoria, (Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya) passing on the important message of ‘please do not litter’ and how to […]
A FEAST OF AFRICA Newsletter # 02/21 February 2021
Saturday, 20th February 2021 is World Pangolin Day. As the most highly trafficked wildlife species in Africa, the survival of these unique and shy animals is critical. Pangolins are trafficked mainly for their scales as the Chinese believe they cure a variety of health conditions, though there is no evidence to support this claim. The […]
A FEAST OF AFRICA Newsletter #01/21
WIN! WIN… A copy of SKY GUIDE Africa South 2021. Produced by the Astronomical Society and now in it’s75th year, this is an essential and eagerly awaited handbook for anyone interested in the night skies of southern Africa. There is a wealth of knowledge in this small book for all astronomers, whether novice, amateur or […]
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